Margao (26 photos)

Margao, along with the Ocelot and oncilla is born Leopardus, which lives exclusively in the New World. COLOUR Margot is similar to the color of its more powerful relative - ocelot.





Big expressive eyes Margo in perfect harmony with the colorful woolen dress this cat.
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Margo a long tail, so it is also called long-tailed cat. This is the tail of this animal balancer when moving along the branches, because Margao spends much time in the trees.
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The weight of this charming animal ranges from about 2 to 5 kg. Despite its small size, slozhёn Margao pretty tight.
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Margao leads poludrevesny lifestyle and is active mostly at night, but sometimes during the day. It is great climb trees and can jump from tree to tree like a squirrel. Even with a fully vertical shaft Margao down headlong. In this he makes the special structure of the hind legs, which can be rotated almost 180 degrees. This cat hunts on the trees and on the ground.
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Pregnancy lasts 80 days. Female bears tend to only one cub, less than two. The weight of a newborn kitten is approximately 450-year-g (sometimes less). This is more than the weight of newborn kittens home, even though the Margao bit smaller than the average house cat.
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Life expectancy is about Margo 18 years old, but it happens, usually in captivity, where the animal is not in danger.
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Unlike adults, young animals are decorated with self-colored dark spots; legs have dark gray.
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Margao lives mainly in the warm, dense forests; neither cold nor woodland this temperamental, swift cat does not like. Sometimes she wanders on cocoa and coffee plantations.
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He leads a solitary lifestyle. It searches for prey under trees. Usually prey are small mammals also live in trees; bird, tree lizards, frogs and even insects; sometimes crushes and small monkeys.
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It creeps to extraction Margao and attacks, as has been said, at night. No less skill he shows on earth, easy overtaking favorite prey.
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In some parts of South America, people keep Margot instead of a domestic cat.
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In recent years, due to tropical deforestation livestock Margot considerably reduced. Besides poachers often kill for the sake of his beautiful, thick and soft fur.
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Now Margay, like many other cats with beautiful hair are threatened with extinction.
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